Lotte Thrane

Lotte Thrane

Associate Professor emeritus

Education etc.

2010ff:
Reader at Folkeuniversitetet (Open University), Copenhagen.

2009:
Dr. Phil. (Literature and Art History).

2004-2009:
Lecturer in Scand. Literature, University of Copenhagen.

2000-2005:
Research Professor (The Carlsberg Foundation and Novo Nordisk
Foundation).

1997-2000:
Ass. Professor in Scand. Literature, University of Copenhagen.

1996-97:
Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies, University of East Anglia,
Norwich.

1995-96:
Vertreter der Professur in Scand. Literature, Universität Tübingen.

1995:
Ph.D. in Scand. Literature, University of Copenhagen.

1989-95:
Lecturer, Roskilde University Center and DIS Study Program.

1988:
Visiting Fulbright Scholar and Lecturer, University of Illinois.

1986:
BA in Art History, University of East Anglia.

1981-88:
Lecturer, Dep. of Scand. Literature and Languages, University of
Copenhagen.

1980:
MA in Scand. Literature, University of Copenhagen.

1966 - 1974:
Air hostess with Scandinavian Airlines. Marriage. Based in Nairobi 1969
and Kitale, Kenya 1970 – 1974.

1965 - 1966:
Travelling (France, Middle East and Israel) – work as correspondent and
illustrator for Danish newspapers and magazines.

1961 - 1965:
School of Arts & Design and The Royal Academy of the Arts, Copenhagen.

Editing, curating etc.

2009: Co-curator on ”Imagination and Individuality – The Designs of Lorenz
Frölich” at The Danish Museum of Arts and Design, Copenhagen.

2007-8: Curator on ”Lorenz Frölich - Myth and Landscape” at Ribe Art Museum,
Sorø Art Museum and the Skovgaard Museum, Viborg.

1986 - 1989: Editor at Gyldendal Publishers

1985 - 1989: Editor and journalist at DR, Radio Denmark

1981 - 1984: Editor and journalist at the journal HUG!

Scholarships, honours, positions of trust and memberships

2015: Artist-in-Residence at Circolo Scandinavo, Rome.

2012ff: Member of the board of Danish Authors’ Society.

2012: Scholarship from The Danish Arts Council at Sangam House, Tamil Nadu, India. 

2011: Scholarship at Accademia di Danimarca, Rome.

2010: Danish Authors’ Society’s Prize of Honours 2010 for non-fiction literature.

2010: HALMA Scholarship 2010, nominated by The Danish Arts Council.
Lectures given at ELTE University, Budapest.

2007: Scholarship at Accademia di Danimarca, Rome.

2005: Scholarships: Accademia di Danimarca, Rome and Circolo Scandinavo,
Rome.

2004-2005: Scholarship from the Novo Nordisk Foundation

2000-2004: Scholarship from the Carlsberg Foundation

1996-98: Member of Nominations and Elections Commitee of The International
Conference of Romanticism in America.

1995ff: Member of The Danish Society for the Study of Literature and
Romanticism.

Lotte Thrane: Selected Publications  

Vildfugl og verdensborger. Tretten fortællinger om Estrid Ott og hendes tid < Woman on the Edge of Time. Thirteen Accounts on Estrid Ott and Her Times>. UPress Publishers 2015.
 
While working on my monograph on Danish globetrotter and writer Estrid Ott Vildfugl og verdensborger <Woman on the Edge of Time>, I have published chapters from the book-in-progress as essays in Danish periodicals and in the Copenhagen weekly ”Weekendavisen”.

The Last Residence of Miss Worby.  HALMA Library, Berlin 2011 and Sangam House Reader, Chennai 2013.

Det skønne, det gode, det sande – Martin Hammerich og den æstetiske opdragelse. < The Good, The True, The Beautiful - Martin Hammerich and The Aesthetics in Bildung>. Vandkunsten Editors 2011.

Lorenz Frølich og Mademoiselle Lili – historien om en fransk/dansk succes <Lorenz Frölich and Mademoiselle Lili. The Story of a Danish Succes in France>. In: Børnebilledbogen – indblik og udsyn. Bogvennen 2008-2009. Foreningen for Boghåndværk, Kbh. 2009. S. 53-63.

Lorenz Frølichs franske børnebøger: barnekroppen og det fascinerede voksenblik. <Victorian Construction of Children and Eros - or How to Arrest the Flux of Time into Images>. The Danish Museum of Arts and Design 2009. S. 7-9 + 63-81.

Mellem tegning og maleri. Lorenz Frølich 1820-1908 <Between Drawing and Painting>. Skovgaard Museet 2008. S. 7–35 + 61-65.

Tusmørkemesteren. Ti kapitler om Lorenz Frølich og hans tid 1-2 <Master of Twilight. Ten Chapters on Lorenz Frölich and his Times>. Vandkunsten Editors 2008. S. 8-264 + 8-270.

Diving Into Passion. In: Larry Peer (ed.): Recent Perspectives on European Romanticism. Edwin Mellen Press 2002. S. 193-214.

Visual Pleasure and Writerly Delight. Scandinavica, Norvik Press, Norwich 2002. S. 5-119.

Billedets tid <Time and Image> In: Kritik 145/1999.

Længselsbilleder. En beretning om forførelse, skrift og passion. <Images of Yearning. A Story of Seduction, Writing and Passion>. Odense University Studies in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures vol. 37. Odense Universitetsforlag 1999. S. 7-143.

Billedets tid og skriftens rum. Lessings “Laokoon” - godt tohundrede år efter. <Time in Images and Space in Writings>. Tórshavn 1999. S. 515-527.

Romanen der revnede <The Cracking Novel> Museum Tusculanum Editors, Kbh. 1989.

Rapport fra de stummes lejr <Reporting from the Camp of Mutes>. Written in cooperation w. Merete Munk. Systime Editors 1985.

Knowledge of languages

Danish: mother tongue
English: fluent (verbally and in writing)
French, Italian, German, Swedish and Norwegian: reading and speaking skills
Knowlegde of Swahili and Hebrew

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